16 neering at Columbia, his ahna 111ater. He seldom listens to the radio, because he knows how much better it could sound than it does. vVith static eliminat- ed, almost the only remaining probleln of the industry is the elitnination of F a- ther Coughlin. Dandy A YOUNG lady who has just start- ed to do social work showed us a 11 ote she found in her files, left by her predecessor: "lVlr. Slnith reports that Bud J- is doing well at T - [a re- formatory]. Set fire to building on place- ment farm where he was working he- cause he was angry. A fine-looking boy." Baroness at a Loom T AST week we interviewed thE' Baron- Less 'Vilhelmine von Godin, who is timely by virtue of having restored the J arberini tapestry, "The Crucifixion," which has been hung over the new altar in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. She is a specialist in such work, receiving enough commissions from decorators, private collectors, and museums to keep her busy the year round. The Baron- ess, a short, roundish lady with Dutch- I ,\ - - - . c Epped flaxen hair, has a sInal] studio on :Madison A venue, in the interior-deco- ration belt, where she brews vegetable dyes and works at a hand loom as mat- ter-of-factly as if this were the fifteenth century. Her biggest job so far has been the restoration of "The Hunt of the Unicorn," the set of six tapestries which "\vere hung in the Cloisters last May. These tapestries, considered the finest in existence, are supposed to have cost Mr. Rockefeller $1,100,000, and were in considerable need of repair, having been used during the French Revolution to protect potatoes from frost. The Baron- ess and four assistants v"Torked on that job for a full year, and when they had finished the critics weren't able to tell the new work froln the old. The hardest part of restoring tapes- tries, the Baroness told us, is get6ng the vvool properly dyed. "The weaving is h " f " h " d " 1 not Ing or me now, s e saI . can weave anything." SOlne of the dye forlnulas she uses have been handed down in her family from a seventeenth- century ancestor who was a lnaster \veaver in the Gerlnan town of Hanau and learned his craft in Paris. The Bar- oness wove in en6re new borders for the "U nicorn" tapestries, basing the design on a single tiny relnaining fragn1ent of '. - ,.. - ';a. a.I' MAY 1:3. 19:39 the original border. She wanted to reweave the sky, sections of which were badly discolored, but the time was so short that she had to patch it with dyed cloth instead. To get the proper shade of blue, she set up her vats on electric stoves in a courtyard of the Cloisters and dipped the cloth for several days, stirring it with a long stick. "Then she reached the probleln of weaving in an otter whose head was missing, she consulted the directors of the M uselun of Natural History for anatolnical advice. The Baroness was brought up in ::\;1 unich, and learned lacemaking and needlework as a girl. It was not until after the "Torld '\T ar, "when we lost the money," that she turned to the nee- dle as a means of support. ..(<\t first she confined herself to lacemaking, but hranched out into needlepoint upon learning that the rich Americans paid well for such work. Soon she was doing all the tapestry restoration in the neigh- horhood of Munich. Her in1111igration was the result of a profound lnisconcep- tion, but she has never regretted it. .L n .L merican woman bought a piece of her lace, back in 1926, and, thinking to circumvent the problelns of internation- al exchange, sent her the money through a steamship office. The C()lnpany got ll1ixed up, and reported to the Baroness that they had been given money to pay her passage to the United States. "i1.n odd way to pay a debt!" thought the Baron- ess, but she alniably came along. Now she's con vinced it was all for the best. Rookie S OME weeks ago, one of Bertrand Russell's California friends, read- ing in the newspapers of the savant\ arrival in Los Angeles, tried to tele- phone him at the Biltmore Hotel, his usual stopping place. "Is Bertrand Russell registered there?" he inquired of the switchboard girl. "\V ould he be with the Chicago Cubs?" she asked. H utrzemade ^ MONG the useless bits of inforlna- f\.. tion we have lately accumulated is the quaint legal fact that, under cer- taIn cIrcumstances, you can sumlnon anybody you like to court, to defend a civil suit, the only necessary expenditure heing a quarter for a pad of SUln- mons blanks. Yau don't need an attorney any more than you need hay fever. 'rhe lÎlnitations dre that you 111ust not be a corporation, that you must not be worth 1110re than $300, that you ask no lnore